Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01e23442beb3e8ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-07-30 09:14:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9e0d2ee3f89b0a6b7a5a9580a531269e SHA-1: 544bc63dbcebd786b20146aec196cd0a0abab0d3 SHA-256: 01e23442beb3e8ca498c783e95a8c5b59a1a630a5a3c79481958b5b0013a61c5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as free downloads, with a critical heuristic identifying a redirector to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'free download' and the authoring application suggests it was generated programmatically. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=veterinary+microbiology+and+microbial+disease+2nd+edition+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.shelterreform.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398432/kezamoxamawo-fegatopijejanob-zekuxaminupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.graceofcalvary.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776230/napirun_wukogi_rilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saujs.co.za/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/8694376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dwharris.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406234/24d02688f2f0dd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0114/3715/files/zimudaxesini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7471/4784/files/32542257482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8085/1362/files/36779716320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6875/2023/files/towiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/zasikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8425/1285/files/zisewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/parisibudipaxetiwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/karuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5025/3992/files/86028121810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7250/4483/files/56466318791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49816413057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8266/9464/files/48397299342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A7 5696 bytes
SHA-256: 2dfc6c5410200b0cfb034321c6bb4b15764724f68b8e7449267a0e5344cc1d14
font_01_sfnt_off00008aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AFF 9852 bytes
SHA-256: a5a81ac7236ec7955c41962b2da1b4c504b5851bd7a070de7ce893f143d5973d